Reuters
A heckler interrupted President Donald Trump’s speech at the General Motors Milford Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan on Monday by yelling “pedophile protector.” Video captured the interaction.
The man can be heard repeatedly yelling as Trump increases his volume. Eventually, the crowd began chanting “USA!” and cheering as the man was removed by security. Trump then replied, “He’s a communist” — the right-wing’s catch-all term for anyone who politically opposes them — and pointed at the man before laughing and continuing his speech.
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Donald Trump’s name and related terms appear more than 38,000 times in federal investigatory files related to deceased millionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump referred to Epstein as “a terrific guy” and signed a birthday letter to Epstein, which Trump later claimed was fake.
While the two men reportedly had a falling out in 2004, Trump’s acting attorney generals have refused to release all of the files connected to Epstein, despite a congressional law requiring them to release the complete files by last December. Trump’s Department of Justice directed its staffers to retract Trump’s name from the files before releasing them.
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Last August, Trump relocated Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, to a lower-security prison where she’s “much happier” and allegedly gets both personally delivered meals and playtime with a puppy. She denied that Trump had any involvement in Epstein’s misdeeds — even though Epstein’s own emails state otherwise — and she is also seeking Trump’s presidential pardon.
Interestingly, this isn’t the first time Trump has been called a “pedophile protector” while visiting an automotive plant in Michigan.
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